If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
The summer of 1996. Football had come home, optimism was high. Terry Venables and his squad united the English public but as per usual it all petered out against the Germans. Gareth Southgate’s missed penalty broke the hearts of a nation, and...
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Written by Rob Parker. 24 comments
Most of us would swear we were watching 11 Wankas wandering around the park on a Saturday, but for fans of the world’s best known funny named team that definitely is the case. Peru’s Deportivo Wanka have developed a cult following, and...
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Written by Rob Parker. 39 comments
It’s often done, easy in fact. You are watching a game and the opposition’s fancy-dan number 10 hits the deck after a hard (but fair) challenge from your team’s midfield enforcer. The scream goes up, their bench goes up, and their...
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Written by Neil Jones. 9 comments
Ah, so it has come to this. A list of the most ridiculous, hilarious, and downright odd football injuries ever known to man. From salad cream to wedding rings, dog piss to power drills, get ready. It might get a little freaky.
1. Dave...
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Written by Neil Jones. 6 comments
Homosexuality is a touchy subject; gay footballers even more so (and you know how we love talking about touchy subjects).
When you consider that footballers are invariably looked upon...
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One Summer night in Miami I got traumatized. I’m pretty much open to all things, I like to think, unless you mess with my religion. I got my head turned forever, though. You don’t know who you are until you’re tested.
My wife...
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Written by bobotonto. 11 comments
Today’s report is brought to you by Alessandra Ambrosio and Cristiano Ronaldo and because we’ve been away for a while, by the lovely Adriana...
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Written by Soccerlens. One comment
It’s the bane of a footballer’s life. Not a salary cap, not kiss-and-tell scandals or even the dreaded, and eternally-blamed Credit Crunch (always a capital C for Credit Crunch). No, for any footballer- amateur or professional- the fear...
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Written by Neil Jones. 13 comments
A few words didn’t exist in April 2002. Bouncebackability. Celubatante. Crunk. Hoody. Metatarsal is slightly different from these words in the respect that it did exist, but it was just never uttered. That was, at least, until a man called
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Written by Neil Jones. One comment
Ahh the hamstring. The bane of the pacy player. Nothing turns a manager’s stomach more than their £20m striker running at a defence at full pace, before pulling up sharper than Steve Claridge outside a bookies’.
As shown opposite,...
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